Blitzen Trapper-Cadillac Road
When the mill shut down
it tore down the town
My wife had gone to sea
yeah but I stuck around
A cold wind blows
down an old dirt road
Where the time goes
But oh man God only knows
I spent ten years mourning
for a life that was gone
I spent five more wandering
like a no-good bum
Now I'm back in the valley
Gotta make a new start
Gotta change with the times
But I don't have the heart
Now every night
when the work bell rings
I drive my Chevy to the Interstate
And see what it brings
I always end up
out here all alone
Where it all began
Out on Cadillac Road
I was lucky in love
but my love ran cold
Doing late nights drinking
Just to carry that load
When the word came down
From a foreman at dawn
You got two weeks boys
and then we'll all be gone
When I got to the house
she was packing the truck
She said I'm fresh outta reasons
so goodbye and good luck
As I watched her drive south
The wind turned cold
And I just started walking
Without nowhere to go
On Cadillac Road
A fire starts in the heart
then it grows
Cause up here
on Cadillac Road
A wise man once said
You never know just what
you've got until it's gone for good
I got a teenage boy
He doesn't know my name
Sometimes I go
And watch him at his football games
One of these days
I'm gonna tell him the truth
About who his old man is
Who I was in my youth
About how dreams can die
And there's an old dirt road
Where a house used to stand
Used to be our home
But there's a love that's pure
You know it's pure as gold
And sometimes I think about it when
I'm driving up on that Cadillac Road
A fire starts in the heart
then it grows
Cause up here
on Cadillac Road
A wise man once said
You never know just what
you've got until it's gone for good
Cause up here on Cadillac Road
A fire starts in the heart then it grows
Up here on Cadillac Road
My love is like a wildfire road
Cause up here on Cadillac Road
A fire starts in the heart then it grows
Up here on Cadillac Road
My love is like a wildfire road
Cause up here
on Cadillac Road
A fire starts in the heart then it grows
Up here on Cadillac Road
My love is like a wildfire road